Former POW Blasts Renewed Smear Attacks on his Vietnam Brother, John Kerry

This was posted by MH at the Democratic Daily

Where has it been published?

It was cross-posted: Cross-posted at Freedom?s Fire, Brightly Burning.

http://freedomsfire.blogspot.com/

have been hot and heavy on this for days now - not sure if anyone here monitors them.
Yahoo blogs search and Google shoud pick up on this soon. It's on Technorati and if anyone has time to post it elsewhere it would be helpful. Great post from MH!

These lies pop up in all the searches. The liars are determined to destroy and will continue to ratchet up the lies by any, and I mean ANY, means.

Fantastic post, MH!!!

I especially loved this:



and this:



I had somehow missed knowing anything about this and I hope this will spread to the many others like me who hadn't heard Commander Butler's courageous testimony. Thanks, also, for the links to Dr. Ron's articles on the smear campaign!

This stuff is as important as it gets.

It looks like OTHER vets will take down the swifts - something the media refused to do.

More than an anonymous media, more than Kerry himself. Those vets have the credibility to do it--I'm really glad this one has.

StarTribune.com Minnesota/St. Paul

Editorial: Kerry takes up the Swift Boat charges
He deserves this opportunity to set the public record straight.

Published: June 03, 2006

SKIP

Although they had little bearing on Kerry's qualifications to be president, his young-man's sentiments on Vietnam were a legitimate issue. But that's not where it stopped. Reprising a campaign tactic that had worked well against Sen. John McCain in 2000 and Sen. Max Cleland in 2002, White House political strategist Karl Rove went straight at Kerry's most significant strength: his war record. In the following months, Kerry was accused of shooting himself to get the purple hearts; of having political plans even at that young age that fueled a cynical plot to get medals any way he could; of fabricating, lying about and exaggerating his military experiences. The tactic worked; people began to think maybe Kerry was "Unfit for Command," the title of an anti-Kerry book. Eventually, and bizarrely, people were arguing about whether Kerry took his boat into Cambodia on one occasion. To us the story sounded quite plausible (a number of Americans made clandestine trips into Cambodia during that time), as well as irrelevant to the campaign.

No candidate should have to endure what Kerry got. Some wanted him to sue, but he is a public figure, which complicates matters, and any lawsuit would have taken too long to work its way through the courts, in the meantime highlighting the accusations.

But now Kerry and a group of supporters are seeking to disprove them. Researchers are poring over naval records; Kerry has asked that his entire Navy file be released, and other veterans are giving their recollections.

We're glad Kerry is undertaking this effort. So many of the accusations hurled at him were demonstrably false on their face. It's time the record were set straight.

http://www.startribune.com/561/story/470443.html

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I could be the one who missed it and it was discussed. I was just checking.

On the Dem Daily - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=3194

Also posted here in JK Forum - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x90161

And I do recall posting it in GDP as well.

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Stuff gets buried easily on DU IMHO - while it may not get noticed here that particlar article drew a decent conversation on Dem Daily. Following that DR Ron posted around 8 or more old articles debunking the Swift Claims to boot.